Whats up, Q?" asked Gus.
Oh, we're just scattering some dead fish about town, breaking some windows, photographing naked guys, hanging out in skyscraper lobbies at three-fifteen in the morning, that type of thing.
"Not much," I answered.


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When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
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pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A ...
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Islam and Christianity promise eternal paradise to the faithful. And that is a powerful opiate, cert...
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I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
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When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again....
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It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
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Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth,...
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[I]t occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, beca...
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Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will… but then again, if you don’t imagine, nothing eve...
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What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant puddin...
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I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a w...
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You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how ...
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You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus.
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The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightening, o...
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It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.
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I'm in love with you," he said quietly.

"Augustus," I said.

"I am," he said. H...
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I looked over at Augustus Waters, who looked back at me. You could almost see through his eyes they ...
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And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.
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-so if the inevitability of oblivion worries you, than I suggest you ignore it. God knows that's wha...
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Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.
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You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
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What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?
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Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the sid...
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What's that?"
"The laundry basket?"
"No, next to it."
"I don't see anything next to i...
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Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.
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For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, “Run run run run run,” and too...
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We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels -...
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I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not tru...
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Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his large...
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The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tighteni...
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Anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.
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You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.
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But there was so much todo: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on. I'll have more tim...
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How wil we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?
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AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!' he screamed.
'So that's Sara,' I said.
'Yes.'
'She seems nice.
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The pigs can't stop the fox; I'm too quick,' Takumi said to himself. "I can rhyme while I run; I'm t...
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I’m just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.
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You can't just make me different and then leave
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She has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale.
"DO NOT OBJECTIFY W...
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But why Alaska?' I asked her.

'Well, later, I found out what it means. It's from an Aleut...
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Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better th...
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I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.
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You're funny, and you're smart, and you may show up late, but you always show up eventually.
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I have a great affection for people who are intellectually engaged with the world, and who don’t t...
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I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or wha...
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There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly lear...
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Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you’re a nerd is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you�...
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I wanted us to have an adventure. Because I love that crap. Because I'm not whatever-her-name-is. I ...
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If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit,...
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If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane.
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I do not say goodbye. I believe that's one of the bullshitiest words ever invented. It's not like yo...
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Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.
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Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will
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